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Thomas Borgmann donated over 600 works to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, including pieces by Wolfgang Tillmans, Lucy McKenzie, Cosima Von Bonin, and Christopher Williams. The donation also encompasses works by De Rijke/De Rooij and the complete 16 mm film oeuvre of Jack Goldstein, among other works.
thenationalnews.com
Anna Seaman reports on Christie’s anniversary sale of British art following the Brexit referendum, noting record results for Henry Moore, Bridget Riley, Francis Bacon and John Constable, as well as strong showings at Philips and Sotheby’s in London.
theartwolf.com
Rubens’s Lot and his Daughters (circa 1613-1614) sold at Christie’s Old Masters auction on July 7, 2016 for £44,882,500 / $58,167,720 / €52,422,760. The painting was bought by a telephone bidder during a four-way bidding battle and is noted as one of Rubens’s important early works to remain in private hands.
theartnewspaper.com
The Art Newspaper article reports on the classic week in London where Christie's led Old Masters sales during the market week, highlighting strong results for Rubens and several artist records during the auctions in early July 2016.
news.artnet.com
Peter Paul Rubens, Lot and His Daughters (circa 1613–14), sold at Christie’s London for £44.8 million ($58.1 million). The sale set a record for Rubens in the Old Masters category at the house and is the second-most expensive work by the artist sold at auction according to Artnet Price Database. The overall Old Master sale brought in £65.4 million ($84.7 million).
standard.co.uk
Peter Paul Rubens' Lot and his Daughters sold for £44,882,500 at Christie’s after a 14-minute bidding battle; the Old Master painting had previously hung at Blenheim Palace and became the highest price for an Old Master painting at Christie’s.
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Peter Doig is ordered by a court to prove he wasn’t the artist who created a disputed desert landscape painting. The claimant, Robert Fletcher, alleges ownership and seeks damages and a declaration of authenticity; Doig denies being the author and disputes the connection to Thunder Bay.
rtve.es
The painting Lot and His Daughters by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) sold for 44.8 million pounds (about 52.44 million euros) at Christie's in London, the highest price for a work by a classical master at the auction house. The work, painted circa 1613–1614, was acquired by a collector after a bidding contest among four participants that lasted about 14 minutes and had previously been owned by Moritz von Hirsch auf Gereuth’s descendants; it had been a gift from Archduke Joseph I of Austria to the first Duke of Marlborough in 1706. Christie's notes this as a significant masterwork from Rubens’s early maturity and part of the
lequotidiendelart.com
Pierre Paul Rubens, Loth et ses filles, huile sur toile, 1,9 x 2,25 m, vendue 44 millions de livres sterling le 7 juin par Christie’s à Londres. Christie’s, le 7 juillet, a vendu Loth et ses filles pour 52,4 millions d’euros (44,9 millions de livres sterling). L’œuvre était estimée à plus de 24 millions d’euros et représente plus de la moitié des revenus de la vente “Old masters and british paintings” qui a totalisé 76 millions d’euros (65 millions de livres sterling). Une vue de Haarlem par Jacob van Ruisdael a également dépassé son estimation, atteignant 1,5 million de livres sterling (1,8 million d’euros).
rynekisztuka.pl
The Rubens painting Lot z córkami (c. 1613–14) sold for 44.8 million pounds at Christie’s in London, setting a new record for a work by a Old Master. The evening sale at Christie’s on July 7 generated about 70% of the evening’s total of 65.3 million pounds for the Old Masters sale, with strong results also for works by Bruegel, Bernardo Bellotto, and Jacob van Ruisdael.
artsy.net
Artsy Editorial discusses Germany's new export law affecting artworks over certain values and ages. The article notes licenses required for exports above thresholds and the opt-out provision for living artists. It mentions criticism from figures like Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, and Johann König.
news.artnet.com
The article discusses US federal prosecutors planning to seize about $1 billion in assets allegedly misappropriated from 1MDB, a Malaysian government fund. It mentions Jho Low’s involvement, including his $48.8 million Basquiat purchase at Christie’s in May 2013, and notes related details from The Wall Street Journal and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.
usatoday.com
Kevin McCoy and Nathan Bomey report that the Department of Justice moved to seize roughly $1 billion in assets, including future proceeds from the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, as part of an international 1MDB corruption investigation. The article mentions assets such as the L’Ermitage Hotel, Beverly Hills mansions, NYC luxury condos, EMI Publishing rights, a Bombardier jet, and investments in New York's Park Lane hotel, with potential involvement of Malaysian officials including Najib Razak.
freep.com
David Hammons' sculpture Bird (1990) is highlighted as the centerpiece of the Detroit Institute of Arts' multimillion-dollar, three-year initiative to acquire African-American art. The project, approved by the DIA board, includes acquisitions, exhibitions, commissions, and community partnerships, led by director Salvador Salort-Pons.
bbc.com
The artworks identified are Vincent Van Gogh's sketch La Maison de Vincent a Arles and Claude Monet's Nympheas avec Reflets de Haute Herbe and Sainte-Georges Majeur, seized by Swiss police as part of a Malaysian corruption investigation connected to the 1MDB case. The seizure followed US authorities filing a lawsuit to seize about $1 billion in assets reportedly bought with 1MDB funds.
artforum.com
The article reports that works by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet were repossessed in connection with a Malaysian wealth fund scandal. No sale prices or artists beyond Van Gogh and Monet are mentioned in the provided text.
theartnewspaper.com
Salvador Dalí’s gouache Adolescence (1941) and Tamara de Lempicka’s La Musicienne (1929) were recovered in 2016 after being stolen in 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art in Spanbroek, Netherlands. The recovery was announced by art detective Arthur Brand, with Richard Ellis of Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiquities Squad involved in the return.
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The article discusses Yale University Press preparing a definitive four-volume catalogue raisonné of Richard Diebenkorn’s work, prompted by the appearance of fake Diebenkorn works tied to Knoedler & Co. in New York after Diebenkorn’s death. It mentions curator Jane Livingston overseeing the project and an essay by John Elderfield, with Diebenkorn’s biography notes included.
artnews.com
Gerhard Richter, A.B., Still (1986) and A.B., St. James (1988) are highlighted as part of The Triumph of Painting: The Steven and Ann Ames Collection, with top estimates around $20–$30 million for both pieces. The collection, featuring works by Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Anselm Kiefer, and others, is to be auctioned in New York during Sotheby’s November contemporary art sales, with a guaranteed total above $100 million.
theworld.org
Steve Cohen purchased Picasso’s 1932 painting Le Reve for $155 million, according to the New York Post. The sale followed Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors’ settlement of insider trading charges with the SEC, and the painting was bought from Steve Wynn, who had previously damaged the work.
Christie’s
Peter Paul Rubens’s Lot and His Daughters sold for £44.8825 million after a 14-minute contest, setting Christie’s highest price for an Old Master painting and helping its Old Master and British evening sale reach £63.3901 million.